I spent the weekend back in retail at the Book Fair. It was a cheering experience: I got to see a lot of friends, talk up the MFA program and got to know my students a bit better. I was truly proud of all the work they put in, and inspired by a lot of… Continue Reading
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Out at Long Island City
Preview night at the New York Art Book Fair. The ICP/Bard MFA Students have a table, filled with the great books they’ve been making this year. The event has just the best vibe of anything in the New York art world these days: international, democratic, affordable (although it still makes me clutch my wallet closely… Continue Reading
Queer again and where gratitude comes from…
It’s autumn. Lehigh chases patches of sunlight from floor to the bed for their warmth, just as she sought out the cool of the bathroom tile in the summer. Last night was one of those last outbursts of New York street life where people go back to competing for outdoor tables, forgetting that just a… Continue Reading
Took some time off…
Can’t really tell you why it’s been such a long break, aside from a lot of things coming up at work. But that excuse is threadbare. “Some Velvet Morning” is playing and I’ve spent much of today recuperating from a long day at the office by grooving on the horn parts and eating peanut butter… Continue Reading
Heartless?
It was a joy to come in to work today to find that my aggressive tidying of last week sent the message to the cleaning crew that they could go ahead and scrub all the surfaces down. It’s all much calmer in here. Over the weekend I read through “Visitors From Oz”, a book I… Continue Reading
There’s probably a peanut in there somewhere…
I’m trying to work up interest for my current book It Didn’t Happen Here, an analysis of the failures of American Socialism. It’s got all the hallmarks of “doctoral thesis turned to book”, and you may have guessed that that doesn’t translate to “gripping prose style”. Thing is, I have a very hard time just… Continue Reading
On the ground, or why this post doesn’t have a snappy title…
More time mucking about with the Nikon. I’m beginning to warm to it, although I hate using the view finder. It irritates me always having the camera lens identified with the eye. I’ve just finished Jaron Lanier’s You are Not a Gadget, a driven critique of online life and current trends in computing. Jaron was… Continue Reading
Trash and Blur…
If you have time and 75.00 this weekend you should come and spend them both at Postcards from the edge VisualAIDS’s annual benefit, that allows you to buy great art inexpensively and support the practices and legacies of HIV+ artists at the same time. I have something in there as well as many more talented… Continue Reading
Say your prayers, villain!
Shoulders aching. It’s been a bumbling weekend. A little sketching got done. Things interrupted other things. Saturday’s weather was simply wretched: sloppy not snow not rain, falling so slowly that it didn’t count as sleet either. But its damp and cold penetrated everywhere, especially for under-dressed me. I finished up reading The Year’s Best Science… Continue Reading
Flashing some Fur, and Big Link Friday….
ig link Friday is my sorry attempt at #followfriday as well as a fulfillment of my promise to make this blog more of a resource. Also I’m impressed with the way that people like Thor make their ljs about so much more than the repeated tracks of their obsessions. So here’s some of the stuff… Continue Reading